Maxim
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #14,959 · #1,520 for boys in 2025, 114 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2012 · 346 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 6,992since 1923
Maxim over time
Rank among boys' names. Maxim has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,520 | 114 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,448 | 125 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,337 | 142 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,171 | 174 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,076 | 197 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,111 | 177 | |
| 2019 | — | #984 | 216 | |
| 2018 | — | #902 | 240 | |
| 2017 | — | #871 | 249 | |
| 2016 | — | #847 | 265 | |
| 2015 | — | #780 | 301 | |
| 2014 | — | #720 | 335 | |
| 2013 | — | #731 | 319 | |
| 2012 | — | #683 | 346 | |
| 2011 | — | #726 | 313 | |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #729 | 314 |
| 2009 | — | #731 | 319 | |
| 2008 | — | #703 | 334 | |
| 2007 | — | #789 | 273 | |
| 2006 | — | #851 | 236 | |
| 2005 | — | #980 | 177 | |
| 2004 | — | #895 | 194 | |
| 2003 | — | #849 | 204 | |
| 2002 | — | #954 | 168 | |
| 2001 | — | #926 | 167 | |
| 2000 | — | #962 | 158 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,181 | 109 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,280 | 94 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,350 | 82 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,552 | 64 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,864 | 46 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,753 | 50 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,792 | 47 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,955 | 41 | |
| 1991 | — | #2,344 | 30 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,086 | 35 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,292 | 29 | |
| 1988 | — | #2,035 | 31 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,829 | 35 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,226 | 25 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,824 | 16 | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | — | #3,692 | 11 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,412 | 12 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | — | — | ||
| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,370 | 9 | |
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| 1966 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1965 | — | — | ||
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #3,041 | 8 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,652 | 6 | |
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| 1957 | — | #3,552 | 6 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,942 | 5 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,919 | 7 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,109 | 6 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,964 | 7 | |
| 1942 | — | #2,712 | 8 | |
| 1941 | — | #3,505 | 5 | |
| 1940 | — | #3,130 | 6 | |
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| 1936 | — | #3,549 | 5 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1926 | — | #4,201 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,175 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Maxim! It came in at #3,175, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1924–1939, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Maxim
- 72 spots since 2024 (#1,448 → #1,520)
- 409 spots since 2020 (#1,111 → #1,520)
- 740 spots since 2015 (#780 → #1,520)
- Biggest jump: 219 spots in 2000 (#1,181 → #962)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2020 (#984 → #1,111)
- Debuted 1923
- Peaked 2012 at #683 (346 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2000–2019
- Highest: 1 in 5,483 boys born in 2012 were named Maxim (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,983 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 41.4% of all boys named Maxim (2,898) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 13 | #3,175 (1923) | #3,688 |
| 1930s | 10 | #3,549 (1936) | #3,614 |
| 1940s | 39 | #2,712 (1942) | #3,057 |
| 1950s | 25 | #3,095 (1952) | #3,433 |
| 1960s | 32 | #3,041 (1962) | #3,495 |
| 1970s | 36 | #3,370 (1971) | #4,387 |
| 1980s | 182 | #1,829 (1987) | #3,267 |
| 1990s | 598 | #1,181 (1999) | #1,716 |
| 2000s | 2,230 | #703 (2008) | #864 |
| 2010s | 2,898 | #683 (2012) | #797 |
| 2020s | 929 | #1,076 (2021) | #1,277 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maxim in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 296,266 of them was named Maxim, which outranked 24.6% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #13,448Zykiria7
- #13,448Zynah7
- #13,448Zyniyah7
- #14,959Maxim6
- #14,959Aaishah6
- #14,959Aamirah6
- #14,959Aamori6
- #16,992Aaditri5
- #16,992Aalaya5
- #16,992Aaliayah5
Tied with 2,032 names at #14,959; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 6,110 of them was named Maxim, which outranked 94.9% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).